Thanasimus formicarius: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Cleridae
- Genus
- Thanasimus
- Species
- Thanasimus formicarius
- Scientific Name
- Thanasimus formicarius
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Thanasimus formicarius
The ant beetle (Thanasimus formicarius), also known as the European red-bellied clerid, is a medium size insect, rather soft-bodied, with strong mandibles that can tear between the hard sclerotized integument of bark beetles. Larvae and adults are common predators of bark beetles in Europe.
...Thanasimus formicarius in languages:
- Bokmål
- stor maurbille
- Czech
- pestrokrovečník mravenčí
- Danish
- Myrebille
- Dutch
- Mierenkever
- English
- European Red-bellied Clerid
- English
- ant beetle
- Finnish
- isomuurahaiskuoriainen
- French
- Clairon formicaire
- French
- Clairon fourmilier
- German
- Ameisenbuntkäfer
- German
- Gemeiner Ameisenbuntkäfer
- Korean
- 진개미붙이
- Latvian
- Mizgraužu skudrulītis
- Lithuanian
- Paprastasis Keršvabalis
- Polish
- Przekrasek mróweczka
- Russian
- Муравьежук обыкновенный
- Swedish
- Myrbagge
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